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    Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish: [leoˈnaɾðo ˈtores keˈβeðo]; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, and inventor...
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  • and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo drew up designs of a ‘docking station’ and made alterations to airship designs. In 1910, Torres Quevedo proposed the...
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    la Academia de Ciencias Exacta, Revista 12, pp.391-418, 1914. Torres Quevedo, Leonardo. Automática: Complemento de la Teoría de las Máquinas, (pdf), pp...
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    inventor español". La Época. 1902. Francisco A. González Redondo.Leonardo Torres Quevedo, 1902-1908. The Foundations for 100 years of Airship designs In...
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    axeðɾeˈθista], English: The Chess Player) is an automaton built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres Quevedo in Madrid, one of the first autonomous machines capable of playing...
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    mechanical differential analyzers. In the 1890s, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo began to develop a series of advanced analog machines that could...
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    Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgraded several times since 1916 (in 1961, 1967 and...
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    inventors, Leonardo Torres Quevedo and Vannevar Bush, also did follow on research based on Babbage's work. In his Essays on Automatics (1914), Torres designed...
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    Telekino of Torres-Quevedo,(pdf) vol. 96, No. 1, January 2008, Proceedings of the IEEE. "1902 – Telekine (Telekino) – Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish)"...
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    beat the fastest sloop's time by over five minutes. In 1916, Leonardo Torres Quevedo patented a new kind of ship, a multihull steel vessel named Binave...
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